“I sleep over there [pointing towards a church],” he told me. “But man, when it gets cold it gets down to negative 10 or lower,” talking about Chicago nights in the winter.

Out of curiosity, I asked a few people walking past him for money to help with a hotel. People ignored me, walked past me, bumped shoulders with me while shaking their head, rolled their eyes, I could go on and on. It was quite interesting. During this the man in the photo just looked up an chuckled, “See how hard it is to get a few bucks.”